Items with tag “Circuit Judge James Wood”

November 17, 2008, 4:10PM

MOBILE, ALA.-----A prosecutor today dropped attempted murder charges against Lefloyd Demond Williams, 26, after the victim in the knifing case failed to cooperate. In fact, when 19-year-old Cody Wood showed up 45 minutes late before Circuit Judge James Wood, he was arrested on an outstanding warrant for burglary. Full story »

November 26, 2008, 2:26PM

MOBILE, Ala. - A Grand Bay man was sent to prison today for 30 years for having sex with an underage girl. Circuit Judge James Wood sentenced Clifton Allen Lavinskey, 36, to 20 years for second-degree rape and 10 years for first-degree sex abuse, then ordered that the sentences be served consecutively, or one after the other. Full story »

December 29, 2008, 4:43PM

MOBILE, Ala. -- Two women in separate incidents and courtrooms faced arraignments today in Mobile County Circuit Court. Rose Johnson, 28, told Circuit Judge Smith she had no attorney, so he reset her arraignment. She is accused of robbing a mobile home twice over 2 nights at gunpoint and making off with about $400. In another case, Calundra Covey, 24,... Full story »

February 10, 2009, 10:11AM

MOBILE, Ala. -- Mobile Circuit Judge James Wood told Jonathan Oliver Rivers just before he sentenced him to four life terms this morning that the 20-year-old Washington County man was going to prison because of the "green-eyed monster" -- jealousy. Rivers agreed. He was arrested in early September 2007, after going on a rampage after believing his girlfriend and the... Full story »

May 07, 2009, 3:15PM

MOBILE, Ala. - Habitual offender Wytiki Rayshun Moffett was sentenced to prison today for life without the possibility of parole. In fact, Circuit Judge James Wood gave Moffett, 33, two such sentences and ordered them served back to back in the wake of March convictions for burglary and attempted murder. Full story »

August 25, 2009, 4:51PM

MOBILE, Ala. -- A Mobile couple described for a jury today how intruders burst into their Ann Avenue home three days before Christmas, bound them with duct tape, tied their 4-year-old son up with computer wire, then tore through the little boy's Christmas presents, looking for loot like greedy children. Full story »

August 27, 2009, 8:00AM

Adrian and Brandy Harness, the victims in the case, indentified Whitfield as one of three men who helped rifle through a pile of family Christmas presents, -- most of them slated for their 4-year-old son, before driving off in the couple's two automobiles, taking presents, cell phones and other items. Full story »